Many times I work to create a fantasy world. When I do this type of photography what does reality have to do with it? Nothing. Many photographers would call this digital art and not photography. So be it. I work to create art with my camera, sometimes things just don’t work out.
When we were doing this session the pink smoke bomb didn’t give the results I was looking for in the image. So a little Photoshop magic and viola!
It wasn’t a matter of not attempting to, as the purists say, “get it right in the camera. It just didn’t work. so changing something in the final development of an image through software or darkroom techniques may be required.
We’ve all seen these photographs of women in long flowing dresses where they are “floating”. Many of these have Photoshop magic, but we rarely question them.
When creating fine art photographs does reality really matter or is it the results? Why is it that often photographers can’t accept a piece as art rather than work to discredit it because doesn’t fit their definition of a photograph?
If you are like me, fuhgeddaboudit. Do your thing.
Photographer Clay 
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